Bogotá will be the home of tennis this Tuesday. Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal will face Norwegian Casper Ruud in an exhibition match that will take over the facilities of the Live Coliseum, enabled to receive 14 thousand spectators.
Everything ready for Nadal in Bogotá
Fenix Entertainment Group prepared the field so that fans of this sport can appreciate, on Tuesday, November 29, the talent, discipline and ability of Nadal, champion of 22 Grand Slams and Casper Ruud, who is among the three in the world ranking of the ATP.
The presence of both in this game places the Colombian capital as ‘the city of tennis’.
“For more than six weeks we have been working on the assembly of the court. To put a court in the space of the Colosseum, where we cannot touch the floor to damage it with toxic resins or paints, we place a special surface that protects the field and on it we did some technical tests that after several layers end up forming the base of the field. Then we located all the elements: hydration areas, judges chair, television broadcast themes and others”Manuel Mate, producer of the event, told EL TIEMPO.
“We have enabled the four thousand parking spaces of the coliseum and, in addition, as with all events, we have transport routes that depart from places
strategic in the city and arrive at the parking lot. We recommend that all attendees use the group transportation options to make it easier,” Miguel Caballero, manager of Coliseo Live, explained to this newspaper.
It should be noted that the last time Nadal starred in a match on Colombian soil was eleven years ago, in 2011, the year in which he competed against Serbian Novak Djokovic, at the El Campín Coliseum.
This time, the organizing team offers visitors, in addition to watching the game, other experiences, “there will be a tennis clinic so that spectators have a privileged location while the two athletes lead a master class for a group of fans; there will also be a booth in the box, with exclusive seats that will allow attendees to enjoy drinks, photographs, among other privileges and, finally, a party with Nadal and Ruud, with which we close the event”, explained Marcelo Fígoli, president of Phoenix Entertainment Group.
As a prelude to the duel between the European athletes, planned for 7 pm, four of the best and most outstanding Colombian tennis players of the moment will face each other in a mixed doubles match: Juan Sebastián Cabal, Robert Farah, Camila Osorio and Yuliana Lizarazo.
Likewise, prior to the contest, the 16 caddies who will assist the two tennis players at the Live Coliseum were selected. The children and young people were chosen after participating in the Caddies Selective Tournament.
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